‘West Side Story’ Stars Refuse to Take Sides on Ansel Elgort Sexual Assault Allegations

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Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBose, and Rita Moreno (kind of) addressed the sexual assault allegations against their co-star Ansel Elgort, with Moreno saying it would be “wrong for anyone to take sides.”

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address the sexual assault allegations against their co-star Ansel Elgort.cover story, where they mostly discuss Latina representation in Hollywood. The subject eventually turned to Elgort, in the context of a conversation about’s pivotal attempted rape scene, in which Moreno’s character stops the Jets from attacking DeBose’s Anita.

In June of 2020, a woman alleged on Twitter that Elgort sexually assaulted her in 2014 when she was 17 and he was 20. From a since-deleted Twitter account, she wrote of the, “I didn’t want to do it…the only words that came out of his mouth were ‘we need to break you in.’” The woman also accused Elgort of requesting nude photos and asking her to have a threesome. When the allegations surfaced,had already finished shooting months prior. The actor, who plays Tony in the movie musical, denied the woman’s account, writing on Instagram that they had a “brief, legal, and entirely consensual relationship.” Elgort’s post has also since been deleted.press tour, except for occasional group interviews, his co-stars have been left to address the controversy.

“Nobody really knows what’s going on in anyone’s head. Only the people who were involved in that situation know what actually went down,” DeBose said. Moreno also refused to take sides, saying, “I think it would have been absolutely horrendous and wrong for anyone to take sides in that matter. It’s not for me to make those judgments.”

Zegler, who plays Elgort’s star-crossed love interest, Maria, had a slightly lengthier response. “We made a movie two and a half years ago, and a lot has gone on in the world since then,” she told. “A lot has changed very publicly, and privately as well. There’s been a lot of awakening. You just hope that the people involved are OK, that they are asked in a respectful manner and that they are given the opportunity to answer for themselves.

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